Hannah Arendt Quotes - Page 2

German - Historian October 14, 1906 - December 4, 1975

The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.

New Always Odds Everyday

Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.

Man Political Speech Matters

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.

Love Mistake Experience Love Is

Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life.

Life Culture People World

No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.

Freedom Politics History Beginning

It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country.

Country Nothing Quite Traditions

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Good Horse Well Few

To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.

Age Me Enough Free

War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.

War Small Luxury Only

Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.

Good Day Freedom Growth

Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.

Freedom Man Know Free

It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.

Nature History Past Long

The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.

Day Political One Day Authority

The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

Earth Human Very Human Condition

We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.

Life Human Abundance Activities

These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.

You Know Disgusting Fifties

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Name Action Without Who

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